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Dell will sell you an XPS 13 with linux preloaded, but you'll pay extra. It's ludicrous that you can't just choose it for any laptop.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/laptops/intel-core-ultra-ser...

I had one of the early Project Sputnik laptops (XPS 13 with Ubuntu preloaded) and loved it. Now I use a Framework which is fine, but not anything amazing.
Counter example: TVs
> Does that mean that an individual and unique photon travels the full distance from transmitter to receiver without interacting with anything?

Sort of. There will always be attenuation, which is more or less equivalent to losing some fraction of photons. And one can thing of the interaction of light with glass as the photons being absorbed and re-emitted, but thinking about that way doesn’t actually change the result. And, in any case, there isn’t really any such thing as an individual photon: photons are indistinguishable bosons.

In any case, the photons absolutely do interact on the way, but that interaction usually does not affect their polarization, and one of the many counterintuitive effects of quantum mechanics is that, if the polarization is intact, then no one learned it along the way.

Quantum mechanics is bizarre.
Doesn’t Gemini perform just as well?

Google enshitified one product to require more money for the new one, while delivering zero added value overall.

I would say, well done.
Sounds a little like academics. Smart people living game of thrones...
"One explanation I heard while there is that there are plenty of menial jobs available, but today's educated youth - who've gone through high school and college - just won't take the low-skilled positions their parents and grandparents did. Meanwhile, there's a real shortage of the high-skilled jobs that would actually match their education and aspirations. It's a mismatch between the jobs available and the jobs young people feel qualified for and willing to do."

Same problem the US has. Too much education for the job market. Only about half of US college graduates have jobs that actually need a college education. The last time China had this problem, Mao said "It is very necessary for the educated youth to go to the countryside and undergo re-education by poor peasants." 40 million students were rusticated.

Historically, this leads to unrest. Egypt hit this, with good education but, especially post oil boom, not many jobs that needed it.
Is "unhoused" the one for homeless person that doesn't live in a shelter? Or was that "unsheltered"?

It does seem that vapid progressives love faux-academic jargon to get double plus good points.
My point is that "highly configurable and scriptable environment" is a much higher floor than other languages have. You don't need that to be productive in most languages; there are people who write serious code in nano or even notepad!
> We saw again and again small paddy farms surrounding a handful of 5-10 story skyscraper, plopped in the seeming middle of nowhere.

Without wanting to invalidate any of his points, but his use of "skyscraper" seems a bit inflationary if he includes 10 story apartment high-rises in it.
100%. And to hear it from you. I was just talking to someone yesterday about this and telling them about linear continuous debasement, mimblewimble and grin. Capped supply in PoW ends only in reduction of security which translates to reduction in value. Bitcoin as it exists today has a destiny, and it's not what evangelists think. Incentives are outcome.
As part of the new system, I don't think very much at all, since the two technologies are fundamentally different; CBTC is trains talking directly to each other, and cab/wayside signalling is the tracks telling the trains what to do.

That being said, it's pretty common in retrofits for the older system to still be around as a fallback if the CBTC fails.
Somewhat reminds me of Bob Widlar - who was an alcoholic, aggressive, confrontation-seeking jerk, but at the same time he was also one of the biggest genius of the last century, when it comes to electronics engineering.
I'm curious: What would be the difference between suboptimal decisions made earlier in the history of a code base and technical debt?
> the driver just needs to decide

That's pretty much the definition of technical debt though. "This interface works fine for you if you take steps to handle it specially according to its requirements". It makes kqueue into a point of friction for everything in the system wanting to provide a file descriptor-like API.
It is institute policy at Caltech (at least when I attended) that obviously wrong answers would get you zero credit, even if the result came from a minor error. However, if you concluded after solving the problem that the answer was absurd, but you didn't know where the calculation went wrong, you'd get partial credit.
You can still do that if you buffer it and push it to S3. Any AZ to S3 is free and the net result is the same.
You are right. Found him on linkedin.. edited the post
On the other hand, I enjoyed reading it.
There are many ways to reason ethically about your situation, and you could start by using historical philosophers as inspiration.

Bentham might apply if you consider the overall outcome: is the work your company does positive or ethical for the majority of people the majority of the time? It seems like the “greatest good for the greatest number” would allow for some small unethical aspects so long as the outcome is good for the majority. This could also be seen as a shortcoming in that philosophy because it justifies some pretty terrible actions for the greater good (some of which, like the Manhattan project and its outcome, are mentioned elsewhere in this thread).

Kant might make you look at your company and imagine that all companies acted that way as a way to reason ethically. If all companies acted the way your company acts would that be good or bad for humanity? Kind of like the golden rule, but more rational.

There are many more to consider but it’s my view that most of them will get you to the point where you probably shouldn’t work for an unethical company, even if your particular work or area of focus is perfectly ethical. Mainly because you working for the company allows or helps it to exist in some way, and we don’t want unethical companies to exist. So maybe you could reason your way into working there if your sole focus was finding a way to destroy the company somehow. Otherwise it’s probably better to work elsewhere.
> I would think in general the bulk of the expense of a drug comes from its R&D

Not just its R&D, but also the R&D of the 10 other drugs which looked promising, had a lot of money invested in them, but didn't end up working out in the end.

You could very easily pass a law invalidating all drug patents, and making generics for any drug easily available. This would make all drug prices go down drastically. It would definitely work, there's no question about it. The anti-capitalists are very much right about this.

What they're missing, though, is that this law would completely remove the incentive to make any new drugs. The progress of medicine would instantly slow down to a halt. All existing drugs would be very close to free, but all currently-uncured illnesses would forever stay uncured.
I agree with this post that Hetzner is a bad example. They are focused on a budget deployment.

I do not agree that a state-of-the-art high capacity deployment is as expensive as you think it is. If an organization pays MSRP on everything, has awful procurement with nonexistent negotiation, and multiple project failures, sure, maybe. In the real world though, we're not all working for the federal government (-:
Exactly the same experience : my toy compiler project has 10477 lines of Rust code, and there is only one line with unsafe:

let is_tty = unsafe { libc::isatty(libc::STDERR_FILENO) } != 0;

Here's the source, just in case: https://github.com/burjui/rambo/

In fact, there are exactly two "unsafe" blocks in all of my Rust projects, and the second one is not even needed anymore because of the language and ecosystem improvements, but the project is basically abandoned, so I'm probably not gonna fix it. There's just no need for unsafe in the vast majority of code.

I don't know where Rust critics get their statistics; probably from picking their noses, judging by their arguments. Most don't seem to even have read the official docs, the bare minimum required to form any conclusions at all about the language. I guess they don't read much Rust code and think there is no way we can write even semi-decently performing high-level code without resorting to unsafe hacks or calling C, because that's the way it's done in other languages.
Are there any tools that enable capturing traffic from outside the OS you’re monitoring, that still allow for process-level monitoring?

Meaning, between the big vendors making the OS, and state-level actors making hardware, I wouldn’t necessarily trust Wireshark on machine A to provide the full picture of traffic from machine A. We might see this already with servers running out-of-band management like iDRAC (which is a perfectly fine, non-malicious use case) but you could imagine the same thing where the NIC firmware is phoning home, completely outside the visibility of the OS.

Of course, it’s not hard to capture traffic externally, but the challenge here would be correlating that external traffic with internal host monitoring data to determine which apps are the culprit.
Consent for complex issues is a cop out for addressing privacy concerns. Users will accept or reject these things without any understanding of what they are doing either way. Apple seems to have taken a middle ground where they de-risked the process and made it a default.

This is a “look at me, Apple bad” story that harvests attention. It sets the premise that this is an unknown and undocumented process, then proceeds to explain it from Apple documentation and published papers.
As an outsider (I'm a european engineer with barely any personal connections to the US tech scene) I have the feeling that a significant fraction of Friedman's audience are just more right-leaning at the moment. And Fridman caters to this audience. You know, the kind of people who follow Musk during his current Trump era.
This is very nitpicky, and not even valid at that.

First, I think authorization is even more valid than authentication. In this context, it's the authority is what is important, so that only the designated entities can assert control over the system, and not others.

Second, it's very hard to imagine authorization on an open channel like radio, without any sort of encryption. In fact, only the one-time pad comes to mind, although I'm far from being a proper security person. What I see is that authority is usually demonstrated through some encrypted means - even if the message itself is unencrypted, its digital signature is.

>another non authentic but encrypted
HTTPS is one such channel. The weakest guarantee of HTTPS is that the comms between the client and the HTTPS terminating server is encrypted, nothing more. HTTPS security can be upgraded to include authenticity information, but it's not mandatory, and it's still very useful even in this weaker form.
Right maybe, but why make the ipad so fussy? Why cant it chill at 5v? I am suspicious of the design decisions made here
Bitcoin has become harder to change the more people use it. This is true of all decentralized consensus systems that require consensus to modify. The only way this happens is if the majority see the impending outcome clearly, of course by then the damage will have already been done.
That's stupid.

China's Great Firewall actively blocks people from accessing disfavored international websites, like Google or Wikipedia.

Meta is a very popular website, but it doesn't actively block people from using other websites.
I like trains, but I was never refreshed and well-rested after a night journey in a sleeper car. It just twists and jumps too much (extra points for curvy tracks where you end up with your head slightly downwards from your body half of the time), plus many railway stations on the way have way too loud announcements, plus the border police likes to check even when it theoretically shouldn't (Schengen). I just can't manage to get deep uninterrupted sleep in such conditions.
My bad, I missed the 'personal' part of 'personal failure'. I think my comment is pertinent regarding the first phrase you quoted.
Fridman has interviewed some pretty smart people - so I would say the shows are intellectual, rather than the hosts themselves (although Lex is a smart guy IMHO). I like the long-form interview format - it's allowing the listener to make up their minds rather than "old media's" way of pushing certain points of view.

For example: Fridman's interview with John Carmack is my favorite episode (at 3+ hours I think?).

I've never got on with Joe Rogan's or Jordan Peterson podcasts - just not my cup of tea. Sam Harris is no doubt a smart guy but he suffers too much from TDS - which gets annoying.
the airplane is perfectly fine to continue flying for a while on one engine so their momentary shock should not have been an issue. they've trained extensively for this kind of scenario and should probably have gone around if the bird strike happened on final approach. like the other person said... the voice recorder almost certainly survived and will give more information as to the root cause.
This is happening all around the globe, I would argue. There is title (hyper)-inflation. In the EU are just lots of PhD, doing jobs that hardly require more than some basic training.
While your caveats are all noteworthy, I'll add that Hetzner also offers unlimited/free bandwidth between their datacenters in Germany and Finland. That's sort of like AWS offering free data transfer between us-east-1 and us-east-2.
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I used to share this view but it turned out to be naive. After living in China for over a decade I can confidently say that the majority of Chinese actually support the CCP. I know, it's hard to believe for us Westerners.
“Ask App Not To Track” would like a word
Honestly, in the EU it's quite common for pharmacies to make compounded drugs. At least in my country ALL pharmacies are required to have the equipment and staff required to do so. I would be surprised if it wasn't the case in others.
Even Nvidia's victims are better off... (O)llama runs on AMD GPUs
Hi Kragen, hope you are well.

Yes, the Sun/Netscape Java deal included MILLJ orders from on high, and thereby wrecked any Scheme, HyperTalk, Logo, or Self syntax for what became JS.

Lua differed a lot (so did Python) back in 1995. Any existing language, ignoring the security probs, would be flash-frozen and (at best) slowly and spasmodically updated by something like the ECMA TC39 TG1 group, a perma-fork from 1995 on.
Have you been offered a job in a BigTech that pays 3 times your current salary, and did you decline it?

It's easy to criticise others when you are not confronted to the situation.
that's double plus good.
Lol no they aren't. Taxes do not get used, they get burnt. The government does not budget based on taxes. They just spend whatever they are going to spend. Taxes are used to target specific inflation. This way they can keep everyone on the treadmill. Taxes are for the poor and working class, not the rich. You will not be able to convince the rich and powerful to tax themselves in any meaningful way.
They are not, that is what makes it secure and why you should read the manual.
Is there a way to verify the claims of obfuscation, security and privacy? Or is the only verifiable fact the sending of unknown data to apple by the photos app?
Russian civil aviation is already suffering from a lack of spare parts.

Alienating foreign airlines who would be able to step in, but have to be willing to do so, is doubleplus ungood in this situation.
Unfortunately the full title is way over the HN character limit.
> But the belief in the magical power of the free market always to serve the public good has no theoretical basis.f In fact, our current climate crisis is a demonstrated market failure.

It's not a free market failure. It's an example of the Tragedy of the Commons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
> You'd need some sort of institution with far greater resources to handle those, like an asylum. North America just seems to have a sordid history with the like.

Does anywhere not have a sordid history with asylums? I'm genuinely asking as it seems like such facilities always devolve into pseudo-prison for the undesirable no matter what.
yeah many people don't understand how cheap it is to use the chatgpt API

not to mention all of the other benefits of delegating all the work of setting up the GPUs, public HTTP server, designing the API, security, keeping the model up-to-date with the state of the art, etc

reminds me of the people in the 2000s / early 2010s who would build their own linux boxes back when the platform was super unstable, constantly fighting driver issues etc instead of just getting a mac.

roll-your-own-LLM makes even less sense. at least for those early 2000s linux guys, even if you spent an ungodly amount of time going through the arch wiki or compiling gentoo or whatever, at least those skills are somewhat transferrable to sysadmin/SRE. i dont see how setting up your own instance of ollama has any transferable skills

the only way i could see it making sense is if you're doing super cutting edge stuff that necessitates owning a tinybox, or if you're trying to get a job at openAI or anysphere
The feature is not unsafe in the first place, so turning it on by default grants useful functionality without risk.
Different speeds of action, different densities of medicine, shelf lives, etc. Form follows function and all that.
> Who do you buy from when they’re all bad. I don’t think buying a Linux laptop is a serious option even for most enthusiasts. The software, hardware, and battery life just aren’t there.

I'm writing to you from a $250 laptop running Mint (with 11 hours of charge remaining) that this is is pure, unadulterated FUD from 20 years ago.

Lenovo certifies their systems for use with both RHEL and Ubuntu [1] which means that most mainstream distros will work contemporary, high-end business ultrabooks that are widely regarded as some of the best in their class. Arch has a lush, green compatibility matrix [2] for these laptops too. Once a year on average I buy a four-year-old T series and throw Mint on it for a friend or relative and everything works out of the box. This has been the case for at least a decade. If you don't want to buy a Thinkpad then the acclaimed XPS 13 is one of many [3] Dell laptops that comes pre-loaded with Ubuntu. Others in this thread have also pointed out the numerous vendors that ship Linux on rebadged barebones hardware.

We need to cut it out with the "desktop Linux is hard" meme. It's a counterproductive mind virus. It hasn't been true since the Bush administration and almost always amounts to some hand-wavey comment like the above. The hoops you have to jump through with modern Windows a la Group Policy hacks, TPM requirement bypass, selecting the exactly-correct LTSC version, etc. are consistently greater than anything you have to deal with on modern desktop Linux in my experience.

[1] https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd031426-linux-fo...

[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Lenovo

[3] https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/scr/laptops/app...
> So why didn't Apple just simply ask for user permission to enable this feature? My cynical opinion is because Apple knows some portion of users would instantly disallow this if prompted, but they feel they know better than those users. I don't like this attitude, and I suspect it is the same reason why there is an increasing discontent growing towards opt-out telemetry, too.

I'm just not sure why Apple needed to activate this by default, other than not draw attention to it... and doing so that was more important than the user's rights to the privacy they believe they are purchasing on their device.

I don't care what convenience i'm being offered or sold. If the user has decided what they want and the premium they are paying for Apple, it must be respected.

This makes me wonder if there is an app that can monitor all settings in an iPhone both for changes between updates, and also new features being set by default to be enabled that compromise the user's known wishes.

All this AI, and this is still overlooked.

I'm hoping it was an oversight.
Greeks didn’t leave much behind genetically in their Afghan settlements, Kalash are a relict from when PIE populations first came into Europe, as I think Y haplogroups show
Presumably the author really is missing a driver; I doubt he'd have missed being able to install without it. If he really does need such a driver; then the exact name of it or the details of Dell's BIOS options and whether they help sound fairly incidental to the underlying story.

Your criticism may be reasonable; but does it really cut at the heart of the issue? Also; some of these options are occasionally oddly named, so let's not ignore the possibility that the article's author is right on this.
Purely organic, no AI used whatsoever.

(Lord of io_urings, oh my)
> Nvidia A100 workstations for £100

This seems extremely overpriced.
> The only way to fight enshitification is government regulation.

A good friend of me decided to stop (as far as possible) having any further contact to people who use "spying devices" in his presence.

A good idea.
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What about the same medicine and dosage available in both forms? Like a lot of over the counter painkillers or anti inflammatory drugs can be either/or. Is there any big difference between them?
It's not wrong, though. If your goal is purely "win hearts and minds in China," doing whatever the Chinese government wants is good step. It is, however, not clear that this would be a good primary goal for a US president.
I've faced no consequences at all for repeatedly telling people that the US has committed war crimes and pointing them to evidence of said war crimes. It's true, of course, that you'll go to jail for a bit if you obtain a security clearance and then violate it, but even then I don't think it's reasonable to characterize that as "nailed to a tree". Chelsea Manning lives freely in the US and is quite popular in some circles; my understanding is that China generally imposes the death penalty for similar leaks (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/6/china-hands-death-s...).